Update from Iris

Hello World! Man..what day is it again :)

I told one of our friends who came to visit, I just can't seem to get it together to get this post up. I've been working on it for a few days. I do feel really good considering everything but this whole lack of sleep thing catches up to ya after a little bit. We are starting to get into a little bit of a routine and I'm trying to heed the advice "sleep when the baby sleeps". Today I finally did some normal things like a load of clothes, cleaned up the dishes and picked up the house. I cannot say how nice it is to be able to do things for myself again. My first day off bedrest..I went to the doc that am for my checkup...got the green light to do WHATEVER I WANTED...so I went to the mall and was gonna walk around a little...didn't even get in the door good, was at the top of the escalator and my water broke! So I drove myself to the hospital with the flashers on and J met me there...confirmed we were about to have a baby and sent me down to the third floor...6 hours later we have us a precious little boy.

I've had lots of friends ask me how it's been so far. Well, he is a very good baby...I mean we are only on day 4 but he eats really good, sleeps good, hardly ever cries, we haven't even had to use a pacifier one time (yet). He likes to snuggle and when he is awake he just looks around at everything...very curious. Like right now I'm sitting in the rocking chair with him stretched out in my lap and he is just kicking his little feet and looking around while I finish this post. Since he has been in this world he has even had his first shopping trip. We had to take him to the doctor for his first checkup this Friday (yesterday) and check his weight. He had lost from 7.8 to 7.1 in the hospital but when we took him yesterday, he was already back up to 7.5. Then we needed to go get him some clothes since we didn't have many and ran in JCPenney to get him some outfits. He slept through the whole shopping trip and car ride home.

My recovery hasn't been too bad from the actual birth. The more I've moved around the easier it's getting. We are going to bust out the jogging stroller tonight and take our first walk...don't worry, no jogging just yet.

Here are a few pics to show what we have been up to over the past week.

Love this man...after going through an experience like "childbirth" and seeing him love on our baby...it just makes me love him even more. So this is Briggs and Daddy just hangin out at home.

I'm sure everybody is wondering about the "bucket list"... well we actually did get it accomplished and then some:
-hair cut...check
-oil change...check
-dinner with J..check

I wanted so badly to make it to church at least one last time before the baby so we went...this was what I looked like two days before little thing decided to make his debut. It was great to just sing some songs. We have been watching the sermons online but it was great to actually be there.

Got my pedicure FINALLY with Courtney. That was a nice treat :)
AND...got to go to the movies with my hubby and he took me out to eat. I missed a lot of it b/c I had to pee about 5 times...but it was cute.

So that's the latest from the Poland house. Adjusting to our new way of life and honestly loving every second of it.